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Well, this is good news for a sunday morning.
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7812-six-uk-area...
And my I see Bath is up for the trial,wonder it's just within the city or surrounding area's, I'm on the Kingsmead exchange.
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Bath and North East Somerset as part of the Bristol chunk.
It is not very clear so far what will be delivered, e.g. West Yorkshire looks like business only vouchers but others may be different.
There is already a little bit of full fibre on the Kingsmead exchange and if I recall some postcodes are down to have it rolled out to them too. The £10 million split six ways means no one area is going to get blanket coverage so lottery will persist, but still good news for some.
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It's only for businesses, schools and college etc. So, don't waste your time of hoping for a home, because it will NOT to happen.
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It is not very clear so far what will be delivered
Well they will probably install the Splitter Nodes, the DP's and the Manifolds along with all the fibre cables and then after all that install a fibre cabinet and rollout FTTC instead.
BTOR have absolutely no clue what they are doing at the moment.
And I wonder where this £200m fund has come from.
Paul
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It's only for businesses, schools and college etc. So, don't waste your time of hoping for a home, because it will NOT to happen.
it never does, unless you live in certain areas. Every news story, until the time as they say " rolling out to places like Newport and Chepstow) is a non starter for me
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Funding previously announced in chancellors budget and a ROI from previous voucher schemes showing a £1 spent benefits economy by £8 is a driver
So far nothing is pointing to this being used to fund Openreach FTTP footprint at all.
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It's interesting to see West Sussex on the list. Looking at the broadband map there seems to be very little (if any) alternative FTTP Providers anywhere in the county, any ideas if there any?
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Based on the few words seen so far my bet would be on somewhere like Crawley as most likely focus, until we know some detail hard to say more
It might even be that West Sussex was picked due to council having had an unknown express an interest so we will find out in time
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Re Bath:
Whatever happened to the Fibre to the Premises product for SMEs that was announced in June last year?
http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTUKandWorldwide/BTReg...
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/06/bt-conf...
The local press had something in September
http://www.southwestbusiness.co.uk/regions/bath/ultr...
But then there's been nothing since. And the page on the OpenReach website which had the cities listed has quietly deleted them.
https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/fibre-broadb...
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https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#...
is one area that we recently found that is very business based, and looks like rolling to some residential nearby too.
https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#...
also so in central Bristol
Then Bath
https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#...
NOTE: If press is saying ultrafast is coming they are forgetting that Virgin Media with 300 and 350 Mbps options is also ultrafast.
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And I wonder where this £200m fund has come from.
The £200 million was announced in the budget, for the purpose of seeding "market tests" for deploying full fibre.
See it akin to the "market tests" that they did in BDUK for wireless & satellite solutions. That, I think was intended to seed company involvement into the latter part of BDUK. That didn't result in much new involvement, but the money reduces the risk to trying out something.
To me, this is seed funding to get companies to commit to trying Ofcom's newest idea for "full fibre" competition: using PIA from BTOR.
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Was looking for a link to register an interest in the 1GB trail.
Found this: https://bt.centercode.com
Anyone familar with this site.
Edited by Nightglow (Tue 05-Sep-17 09:38:34)
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